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CNN is still sick with Fox envy -- and it's only getting worse
SFGate.com ^ | 01/20/2006 | By Tim Goodman

Posted on 01/20/2006 9:50:48 AM PST by oxcart

These must be great days to work at Fox News. Not only does the 24-hour cable channel beat rival CNN like a sick, sad mule, but Roger Ailes is so deep in the heads of CNN's managers that every time they stumble over themselves in chaos -- which is often -- the chairman of Fox News looks like some kind of psyops genius.

If Ailes -- boo! -- isn't haunting the halls of CNN and driving CNN President Jonathan Klein batty with paranoia, then how else to explain Klein's relentlessly nonsensical decisions, which are driving CNN into the ground? What person rooted in reality looks at CNN and thinks, "Now there's a network on the rise"?

Well, apparently there's one person -- Klein.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cablenews; cnn; envy; foxnews; foxnewsratings; moonbats; rogerailes
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To: floridaobserver

"I also think Wolf Blitzer is pretty cool. What kind of name is Wolf, by the way?"

It's German and there's NOTHING about Herr Blitzer that's cool.

Signed up last month, I see. H-m-m.


41 posted on 01/20/2006 10:59:29 AM PST by toddlintown (Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
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To: oxcart

It amazes me to see moonbats whining that CNN and the NYT are "shills" for the right. I wonder if any of them honestly believe that.


42 posted on 01/20/2006 11:00:29 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: oxcart
This is what I found funny. First he says:

There's a sadness here. And it has nothing to do with CNN's inability to "counter" Fox News with a respectable progressive slate of contributors. CNN used to be a reliable source for national and international news. Now it mostly chases storms and tragedy -- and Fox.

Then he says:

For a long time now there has been this perception that Republicans watch Fox News, Democrats watch CNN, and MSNBC picks up the undecideds. But that's simplistic.

There's a disconnect there. He's admitting that CNN is "progressive" (code for "Liberal", and something very surprising for a Liberal to admit), but then says it's simplistic to say that it caters to Democrats.

Well, by putting forward a Liberal (er, "progressive") slate of contributors, who exactly does he think CNN is actually going to cater to?
43 posted on 01/20/2006 11:13:53 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: oxcart

good article. Loved the part about Bennett. Dont know who Beck is but I like Watts. I suspected FNC was going to ditch Bennett. The only show I ever saw him on was H&C. Brit Hume never allowed him on his show. CNN is a good place for him in that he is a McCain supporter.


44 posted on 01/20/2006 11:29:01 AM PST by jubail
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To: billhilly

cub

n 1: an awkward and inexperienced youth [syn: greenhorn, rookie] 2: a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) [syn: lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy] 3: the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion [syn: young carnivore] v : give birth to cubs; "bears cub every year"


45 posted on 01/20/2006 11:37:18 AM PST by RTINSC (There is no guarantee of Success but Failure is guaranteed if you are not successful..)
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To: oxcart

Circulation at the Chronicle is falling faster than a stone and they actually have the nerve to publish this slop. If Tim Goodman and the Chronicle staff are so good, why don't they fix their own newspaper. They need to put up or shut up. Hypocrites!


46 posted on 01/20/2006 11:56:13 AM PST by Owl558 (Pardon my spelling)
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To: RTINSC

http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/com/puppies.shtml


47 posted on 01/20/2006 12:33:36 PM PST by billhilly
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To: RTINSC

http://www.wolfcountry.net/information/WolfPup.html


48 posted on 01/20/2006 1:22:08 PM PST by billhilly
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To: oxcart

if only CNN were true to their liberal idealogy they would recapture their old luster......not.


49 posted on 01/20/2006 1:24:08 PM PST by Always Right
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To: FormerACLUmember
I liked the CNN newsbabe during the Kosovo situation in '98 describing the "advance force of the 82nd Airborne, one Bat i llion will soon arrive here in Kosovo"...

I told my wife that the Batillion would then attend a Cotillion.

50 posted on 01/20/2006 1:28:59 PM PST by L,TOWM (Liberals, The Other White Meat)
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To: RTINSC

Wolf Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is an American journalist and author. He has been a CNN reporter since 1990, and is known for his straightforward "hard news" reporting style. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast The Situation Room and the Sunday talk show Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer previously hosted Wolf Blitzer Reports, which was replaced by The Situation Room.

Blitzer, whose first name was his maternal grandfather's name, [1] grew up in Buffalo, New York, the son of Jewish Holocaust refugees from Poland. He received a B.A. degree in history from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1970 and an M.A. degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1972.

His career in journalism began in 1972, in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters news agency. He soon moved to Washington, D.C., where he was White House correspondent for The Jerusalem Post after a spell working for AIPAC. In 1990 he was hired by CNN as a military-affairs reporter. His team's coverage of the first Gulf War in Kuwait won a CableACE Award and made him a household name. He became CNN's White House correspondent and later co-anchored the daily show The World Today. His coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing earned him an Emmy Award.


51 posted on 01/20/2006 2:55:52 PM PST by floridaobserver
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To: billhilly

Pups, cubs, same thing. Although it seems odd that Wolfie was a pup reporter at one time:) I think I'll write a complaint to Webster's Dictionary.


52 posted on 01/20/2006 9:49:51 PM PST by RTINSC (There is no guarantee of Success but Failure is guaranteed if you are not successful..)
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To: floridaobserver

Thanks for sending Wolf's CV. At this time however, I am only hiring smiling, blue eyed blondes with JD degrees..(sigh)


53 posted on 01/20/2006 9:52:51 PM PST by RTINSC (There is no guarantee of Success but Failure is guaranteed if you are not successful..)
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To: billhilly





http://www.wolftrust.org.uk/raisingawolf.html


54 posted on 01/20/2006 10:13:35 PM PST by RTINSC (There is no guarantee of Success but Failure is guaranteed if you are not successful..)
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To: billhilly


teehee..



http://www.everythingwolf.com/gallery/gallerylist.aspx?CategoryID=4


55 posted on 01/20/2006 10:16:09 PM PST by RTINSC (There is no guarantee of Success but Failure is guaranteed if you are not successful..)
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To: RTINSC
One minute watching Soledad O'Brien on CNN tells the tale.

Sigh, I had a thing for Soledad O'Brien when she hosted the geek show "The Site" for MSNBC in the 90's. But then she revealed herself to be a barking Leftist moonbat just like all the others. Another illusion crushed.

56 posted on 01/21/2006 4:40:58 AM PST by jalisco555 ("The right to bear weapons is the right to be free." A. E. Van Vogt)
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To: oxcart

CNN is less than useless but FOX seems to be sliding that way. The worst example is little Sheppy Smith having his shrill mini fits. Jane Skinner is so much better when she has been on lately.


57 posted on 01/21/2006 4:50:24 AM PST by dirtstiff
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To: ozzymandus

It depends on your perspective. They seem like shills for the right because they are so extremely to the left.


58 posted on 01/21/2006 4:54:25 AM PST by BunnySlippers (Boorrrringg ...)
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To: oxcart

As FOX likes to put it 'We report ... You decide'. A refreshing breath of fresh air in todays stuffy with self importance liberal MSM.


59 posted on 01/21/2006 4:58:56 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: oxcart
Who can forget CNN on 911 (was it Miles O'Brien?) saying, almost even as the second tower is being hit, that it seemed to be some sort of navigational error?

They just have such a wierd view of the world.

60 posted on 01/21/2006 5:00:35 AM PST by twntaipan (Liberals: Eternally stuck on stupid.)
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